Hegar
@Hegar@fedia.io
- Comment on Trivago 2 days ago:
Omg never do I get so many downvotes as when I point out how unnatural a white wall of american teeth look.
To me it's like neck rings or cranial deformation. Intellectually I understand it's a cultural practice that must display worth to those within the culture or they wouldn't do it. But that's not the effect it has on me.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 days ago:
Nope, abduction is a magic speciality that prevents you learning alteration or illusion spells.
- Comment on YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else. 4 days ago:
Meyers-Briggs workshop
I don't put much stock in business astrology grifters myself 😆. But I definitely agree that we adapt our behaviors to the people and situations that we're in. I would strongly disagree with that last third though - we are always who we really are.
The behaviors we're reluctant or incapable of changing around others are no more us than the behaviours that we have stronger insight into and control over.
- Comment on YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else. 4 days ago:
Yeah I don't think "being yourself" is a thing that anyone has to worry about. You can only ever be yourself.
As you point out, we're social mammals. We always exist in a social context and the behaviors that benefit us are highly dependent on that context.
It's also perfectly natural for our identities to change over time. We don't "discover the real me" we adopt new identities that benefit us more. That's just how being a human is.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 1 week ago:
Congyoubingius
- Comment on Trapeze artists 1 week ago:
Yet another problem that wouldn't exist with a properly unionized work force. If your boss tells you to work when sick, there's only one person who should be shat on.
- Comment on it's just science, i guess 1 week ago:
Ah, could be. There's non-homogenized milk that we get sometimes here but it's nowhere as good as I remember that UK milk being. Maybe it's just distant childhood memories being incorrect.
- Comment on it's just science, i guess 1 week ago:
Raw milk is way tastier though. The clearest memory I have from visiting the UK at 9 y/o was the milk from the milk rounds being unreasonably delicious. Like so much better i wasn't sure it was milk.
It's obviously not the right choice to fulfill the nations milk needs, that's a public health disaster. But I wish it was available in limited, risk-minimized contexts like in most of Europe.
- Comment on 'Pure Incitement': Google Allows Israeli Sponsored Propaganda Aimed at Global Sumud Flotilla 1 week ago:
Google has allowed the government of Israel to purchase sponsored content spots so that online users searching on the Global Sumud Flotilla will be shown inaccurate, propagandized content accusing the flotilla particpants as being allied with violent, terrorist elements.
Like every youtube ad, google is once more foisting objectively false bullshit on the public.
Maybe next they'll claim that bombing peace activists is ten times more effective than ozempic?
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
”Roger Meyers, Sr., the gentle genius behind Itchy & Scratchy loved and cared about almost all the peoples of the world”
- Comment on There are no laws! We made the whole thing up! 2 weeks ago:
Identity too! That's like the most important one I think. A lot of our worst behavior is in service of these completely made up identities which none-the-less help us secure access to resources.
I heard someone talking about how a lot of our rituals are these imaginary actions we take to reify these imaginary but vital institutions like identities and nation states.
- Comment on A lot of people make the mistake of thinking they have real life plot armour 2 weeks ago:
I think that's how human brains be. We're already notoriously bad at correctly accounting for low-risk events (eg the lottery). Plus being constantly aware of the full myriad of threats we face would probably be debilitating.
If you haven't had or seen a kind of accident you're brain probably sees no compelling reason to account for it. My partner was lax about flu shots until she started working at a funeral home and saw how many people of all ages die of the flu. Now it's a threat she has the awareness to accurately account for.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 3 weeks ago:
This is just an ad for obvious bullshit. Forbes may as well be running articles about how ozempic is done because of this one weird trick a local veteran discovered.
- Comment on Israel Is Considered a "Genocidal, Apartheid Country" Abroad, According to Israel’s Own Research 3 weeks ago:
In the US and Germany, where support for Israel is highest, 66% & 68% still believed that Israel was killing mostly civilians. People in those countries estimated ~10K killed by Israel, though the official number is 64k and still an undercount.
That gap in perception versus reality suggests that attitudes toward Israel have not hit their floor.
Israel’s best tactic to combat this, according to the study, is to foment fear of “Radical Islam”
This is just like Mr Burns being told he's seen as an ogre and replying "Why I should club them and eat their bones!"
- Comment on Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment? 4 weeks ago:
I'm guessing it'll be more like the dot com bubble in the 90s - too much too soon but it's not going away.
- Comment on AP reporting calls into question why and how Israel attacked a Gaza hospital 4 weeks ago:
So the IDF killed a Reuters videographer in a double-tap strike with high explosive rounds on an area of a hospital known as being a spot where journalists set up, after having done drone surveillance which would have confirmed it was a Reuters journalist.
Israel is deliberately targeting journalists, medical staff and first responders for death in their ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 4 weeks ago:
Except dinosaurs weren't taken out and some species like chickens probably have more biomass than ever.
I think that's the more horrific scenario anyway - we cause a massive catastrophe but like the end of a slasher franchise, we're still around to do it all over again.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 5 weeks ago:
I very much agree that copyright is a tool to protect the wealth of the rich. But I think the idea of restricting access to knowledge in order to benefit a select few predates capitalism. I'd guess it's a common feature of strongly elite-dominated societies, of which capitalism is just the current model.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 month ago:
Your link is just to this post, but after searching I believe you're talking about Lia Thomas. That's a single example so not necessarily representative.
"FACT: Trans athletes do not have an unfair advantage in sports.”
"After one year of hormone therapy, trans women performed better in sports than cis women. After two years, their performance was largely equalized.”
"...finding that trans women athletes are at a relative disadvantage in many key physical areas relating to athletic ability... than their cisgender counterparts."
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 month ago:
Yep, the "fairness" argument is a transparent figleaf for intentional persecution.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 month ago:
My understanding is that there is absolutely no evidence that trans women have an advantage. Once hormone therapy has been going for a while performance shows no statistical difference from women assigned female at birth.
Additionally the number of trans athletes is incredibly small.
I've heard that the greatest correlation with Olympic medal tally is the amount of state funding for sports and sport sciences. If we're going to asterisk any records, it should probably be for everyone from wealthy countries.